Java Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 15 34 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 8.57% 24.64% 28.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.54% 65.38% 67.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 29
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £60,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 37 52 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 21.14% 37.68% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 27 10 54
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,800 £24,000
25th Percentile £43,250 £32,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £44,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -36.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £118,750 £58,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £76,625 -
South London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% - +12.50%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Java job vacancy trend in Croydon

Java
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Croydon over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Croydon

Java
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Croydon - 7 £24,000 -
Java
South London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Serverless
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
1 8 (53.33%) Java Developer
1 8 (53.33%) Java Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Test Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Spring
2 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (40.00%) REST
4 5 (33.33%) Web Services
5 3 (20.00%) Apache Camel
5 3 (20.00%) Mustache
6 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) JPA
6 2 (13.33%) jQuery
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 2 (13.33%) SOAP
6 2 (13.33%) WireMock
7 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 1 (6.67%) J2EE
7 1 (6.67%) Java EE
7 1 (6.67%) Middleware
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Microservices
1 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Kanban
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (13.33%) API Design
4 2 (13.33%) API Development
4 2 (13.33%) BDD
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle